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Originally Posted by LaRondo
This is really a compelling subject. I started reading this book "On Population", it's fascinating, but not easy to read. Those editions stem back to the late 1700's and early 1800's. Words used, grammar and punctuation are partially very different. Many sentences and paragraphes I have to read 2x, in order to comprehend the content.
It's worth it though .... funny thing is, we're "Utopians" ... huuh  at least that's what they thought we would be, 200 some years ago.... |
Remember that Malthus was a pre-darwinian and a cleric of some sort. So he is not really a scientist and is more closely allied with scholasticism. You'll see that begin to come out as he describes human morality in relation to his population studies. In some aspects it is a small step from Malthus to Himmler.
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